Burner and support for vaporizers.



0. A. BUTLER. BURNER AND SUPPORT FOR VAPORIZERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 3, 1909.

Patented June 7, 1910.

MIDREW E. GRANAM 00.. PNOYO-LITHOGRAPNERS. wASmNGmN. n4:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GORA A. BUTLER, OF CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

BURNER AND SUPPORT FOR VAPORIZERS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, (101m A. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burners and Supports for Vaporizers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing the burner, stand and vaporizer assembled; Fig. 2 a plan view of'the burner and stand; and Fig. 3 a side elevation of the device shown in Fig. 2.

This invention relates more particularly to that form of Vaporizers which is used in combination with a screen or cabinet for steaming the face with a medicated compound; and has for its object to form with the burner, for heating water in the vaporizer, a stand for holding the receptacle into which the water is placed and a stand for supporting the vaporizer, the legs of the stand being formed to give the stand firm support.

Further objects will appear from a detailed description of the invention, which consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

A receptacle or tank 4, in which water is placed, is connected by a pipe 5 to a small receptacle 6, in which is placed some form of medicated preparation. Extending from the receptacle 6 is a nozzle 7 out of which the steam passes, and attached to the pipe connecting the nozzle to the receptacle is an upright support 8 having a hood 9 which encircles the user; but as all of these elements are old and covered in a former patent issued to me August 4, 1903, No. 735,461, it is not considered necessary to describe in detail their construction and operation.

The receptacle at has surrounding its body a head 10 adapted to be entered into notches 11 cut in the face of arms 12 upwardly extending from a plate 13, which plate constitutes the upper portion of the burner. The notches 11, upon all but one of the arms, are beveled upon their side faces, so that when the bead on the receptacle is placed therein it will be wedged into the notch and held securely. The notch in the remaining arm, is of a right angle formation and is adapted to have entered through its side wall a thumb screw 14, the end of which will bear against the bead 10 on the recep- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 3, 1909.

Patented June '7, 1910. Serial No. 481,064.

tacle 4, which arrangement permits of the easy positioning of the receptacle, but allows no movement after being positioned. The arms 12 are cast integrally with the plate 13, which plate forms that part of the, burner which spreads the flame in proper manner around the base of the receptacle. The plate 13 is joined, by means of a bolt or otherwise, to a casting 15, which has formed in its upper portion a chamber 16, in which the combustion of the gas takes place, the chamber and plate constituting a burner 17 The chamber has formed there with and extending downwardly therefrom legs 18 forming a base or support for the vaporizer, the legs being of somewhat greater span than ordinary so as to prevent easy upsetting of the vaporizer. This is of extraordinary importance in a device of this nature, because of the fact that the head of the user is covered, and in case of the upsetting of the stove a serious catastrophe might result. A gas induction pipe 19 enters into the chamber 15 and is provided with an air duct 20 formed by cutting away a portion of the pipe.

It will thus be seen that the two sections constituting the burner each have arms formed integrally therewith,-the arms formed with the lower section of the burner constituting a support for the entire device,

and the arms formed with the upper section constituting a support for the receptacle or tank of the vaporizer, thus combining, in the ordinary castings which constitute the burner, a supporting means for the vaporizer as a whole, and a supporting means for the receptacle or tank of the vaporizer. This materially reduces the cost of construction of the apparatus and makes a more substantial rest than that afforded by the ordinary construction of burner, and at the same time the construction is one which is symmetrical and does not in any way detract from the general appearance of the apparatus.

What I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination with a vaporizer having a laterally extending pipe adapted to support a hood, a heater provided with a plurality of widely distended legs, and a plurality of arms adapted to receive and clamp the vaporizer in position to sustain the hood, substantially as described.

2. In combination with a vaporizer having a laterally extending pipe adapted to support a hood, a heater provided witha plurality of Widely distended legs, a plurality of arms adapted to receive and clamp the vaporizer in position to sustain the hood, and a thumb screw entered through one'of the arm's'and adapted to bear against the vaporizer to clamp the same in position substantially as described.

3. In combination With a vaporizer com-v prising atank or receptacle and a laterally legs, a plurality'of arms adapted to receive 'screw'entered through one of the notched arms and adaptedto bear against the tank or receptacle to clamp the same in position,

substantially as described, p 7 i CORAA; BUTLER.

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